Comparing and Contrasting the Views of Two Writers

In comparing and contrasting, Daniel James’ essay on “Close the Borders to All Newcomers” and Steven Moore’s essay on “Give us Your Best, Your Brightest”; it is evident that the two writers take separate views on the immigration issue. James is clear that he believes immigrants are overcrowding the United States and costing our citizens millions of dollars. Moore on the other hand, believes that many of these immigrants actually benefit the American public and any drain on the US economy is offset by the contributions to the United States lifestyle especially the technology issue. James appears to be centering more on legal and non legal Mexican immigrants while Moore also takes Asians, Germans, Japanese ,and Koreans into account. While James feels the cost of educating the poor Mexican children is breaking our educational system, Moore’s attitude is that many of our brightest and best students are actually immigrants. He supports this belief by quoting that the highest percentage of valedictorians in public schools today is actually immigrants. Most of James’ argument in his article centers on overcrowding of America, and the cost of welfare, education, and health. He also comments on the jobs lost by Americans to legal and illegal Mexican immigrants. Steven Moore’s main issues are that we benefit by these immigrants both intellectually and physically. Moore feels that instead of being fiscal burdens, immigrants actually increase our revenues by almost 20 billion dollars per one million foreigners migrating to the United States. Moore’s argument appears to negate almost all of the negative comments made by Daniel James.